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Company Overview of CloudLink Technologies Inc.

Company Overview

CloudLink Technologies Inc. provides networking, virtualization, and cloud security solutions for enterprises and governments, and service providers worldwide. Its CloudLink Platform provides the encryption foundation for securing mission-critical data across heterogeneous infrastructures, as well as the flexibility to customize the encryption granularity based on the needs of users, IT and security managers, and cloud providers. The company offers CloudLink SecureVSA, a data-at-rest encryption for private, public, and hybrid cloud deployments, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V VMware, Amazon Web Services, and Azure virtual and cloud environments; CloudLink SecureVM that provides o...

CloudLink Technologies Inc. provides networking, virtualization, and cloud security solutions for enterprises and governments, and service providers worldwide. Its CloudLink Platform provides the encryption foundation for securing mission-critical data across heterogeneous infrastructures, as well as the flexibility to customize the encryption granularity based on the needs of users, IT and security managers, and cloud providers. The company offers CloudLink SecureVSA, a data-at-rest encryption for private, public, and hybrid cloud deployments, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V VMware, Amazon Web Services, and Azure virtual and cloud environments; CloudLink SecureVM that provides organizations with security controls to run virtualized machines in the cloud; and CloudLink SecureFILE, which encrypts sensitive files and provides control solution for scale-out NAS storage in the private datacenter or public clouds. It also provides solutions in the areas of healthcare/HIPAA compliance and law enforcement. CloudLink Technologies Inc. was formerly known as AFORE Solutions Inc. CloudLink Technologies Inc. was founded in 2003 and is based in Ottawa, Canada. It has operations in the United States and Europe. As of April 14, 2015, CloudLink Technologies Inc. operates as a subsidiary of EMC Corporation.

CloudLink Technologies Inc. Key Developments

This joint solution between Microsoft and CloudLink provides customers with a seamless solution that gives them complete control over their own encryption keys while leveraging the security, convenience and reliability of cloud-based key management. With this solution, the cloud provider is responsible for key generation and storage. The customer, as the data owner, controls the security policy that regulates encryption key access and use. This security policy is managed using CloudLink Center, a web interface that provides a single-pane-of-glass view of the VMs in the cloud environment under CloudLink management. Key benefits of this solution for customers running VMs in the Microsoft Azure cloud include: VMs are secured with keys backed by a hardware-based key management solution; Each customer, as the data owner, has complete and singular control of the security policy that regulates encryption key management, and therefore access to data, at all times; Seamless integration between CloudLink and Microsoft Azure Key Vault provides ease of deployment and ease of use.

CloudLink Technologies announced the availability of CloudLink SecureVM for IBM SoftLayer enabling SoftLayer customers to manage encryption of Windows- and Linux-based virtual machines. CloudLink SecureVM unlocks native Windows BitLocker and Linux OS encryption, providing the necessary pre-boot authorization for boot volume and data volume encryption in virtual and cloud environments. These features give customers visibility and control over when and where VMs are started and full control of encryption keys, including the ability to store keys securely in the cloud or in the enterprise's datacenter. Key benefits of SecureVM for SoftLayer customers include: Pre-boot authorization, boot and data volume encryption and VM image integrity verification - Organization control of encryption key management, security policies and deployment models - Decreased security deployment complexity and operational costs by leveraging embedded operating system encryption tools and avoiding changes to how data is stored - Hybrid cloud encryption management through a single pane of glass.

AFORE Solutions Inc. announced that CloudLink(R) SecureVSA will serve as the data security foundation for the EMC(R) Encryption as a Service (EaaS) solution. EMC EaaS enables Cloud Service Providers to offer their customers simple to deploy, pay-as-you-go data encryption providing a value-add security service that complements existing as-a-Service offerings including; Infrastructure as a Service, Storage as a Service, Disaster Recovery as a Service, and Hosted Virtual Desktops. AFORE CloudLink SecureVSA provides a software defined storage encryption layer between virtualized applications and physical storage arrays encrypting sensitive data in multi-tenant public, private and hybrid clouds. The solution is transparent to both underlying storage infrastructure as well as application workloads making deployment simple for both Cloud Service Providers and their customers. While some approaches encrypt the entire storage infrastructure, CloudLink supports granular encryption on a per-application, per-customer basis providing multi-tenant data separation and key control in an efficient, cost effective manner.

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